Africa wins UN recognition of slavery as a crime. Backlash grows as debates over reparations and accountability intensify.

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be ...

This story explores the role of the Ashanti Empire in the transatlantic slave trade and its connection with European powers.

The Church of Our Lady of Muxima was built by Portuguese colonizers in Angola at the end of the 16th century as part of a fortress complex and became a hub in the slave trade ...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the ...

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In the second part of the series, we established that the widely repeated claim that Europeans remained confined to the ...

Available in print and for free online, this book features five essays by scholars of law and politics, all considering the ...

In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...

Introduction / Kristin Mann and Philip Misevich -- Slavery and the slave trade -- Consuming goods, consuming people : reflections on the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- Caribbean ...

VCU associate professor's book explores the hidden history of the British monarchy and slavery in the Americas.